When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be with you in the future as well.
~ William Gibson
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When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be with you in the future as well.
~ William Gibson
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Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
~ George Santayana
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A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.
~ James Baldwin
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
~ Mark Twain
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Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.
~ Janet Malcolm
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Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.
~ Sun Tzu
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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